chester coggins



(NoModeL) O. O. GOGGINS. Carriage-Top.

No. 228,444. Pat ented June 8, I880.-

71 I/azz n4 PETERS, PNO'IO-LITHOGRAFMER, WAQNINGTON, 0 C.

tlNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

O. CHESTER COGGINS, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSI GNOR TO 0. B. NORTH & 00., OF SAME PLACE.

CARRIAGE-TOP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 228,444, dated June 8, 1880.

Application filed March 27,1880. (No model.) H

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, O. CHESTER COGGINS, of New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut. have invented a new ImprovementinCarriage-Tops; andI do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in

Figure 1, a sectional side view; Fig. 2, a side view of seat-iron enlarged.

This invention relates to an improvementin that class of carriage-tops commonly called canopy-tops, and such as are made collapsible and the invention consists in the construction, as hereinafter described, and particularly recited in the claims.

A represents the upright or principal bow, extending up from each side and over the seat. B B are two of the auxiliary bows, hinged to the principal bow A, as at a. C C are two other auxiliary bows, each hinged to one of the bows B, as at I). These bows are covered in their extended position in the usual manner.

From the hinge-point b of the bow C an arm D, exten ds to the center, where the two said arms 1) are hinged together, as at (1. Hence 0 when the arms D D are brought into the same line, as in Fig. l, the bows B B and C C are thrown out to their extended position but by drawing down the bows D D they turn upon the hinged part (I and close over toward the 5 others, which movement draws the bows B B toward each other, and at the same time turns up the bows C C until they reach the extreme collapsed position, as seen in broken lines,

Fig. 1.

In order to hold the bows in their extended position, a shoulder or latch, e, is arranged in the principal bow A, to engage the armsD D, when in their extended position. but from which the arm may be readily disengaged. The side bows, A, are slotted vertically, as at 5 f, and are set over a headed stud, h, on the seat-iron E, so that the top may be raised vertically, as indicated in broken lines, Fig. 2. The lower end of the bow is extended and provided with a stud, Z, which stands in a vertical slot, n, in the seat-iron, corresponding to the slot in the bow. The vertical slot it opens into a segment-shaped slot, F, of which the stud or pivot h is the center.

WVhen the top is lifted vertically, as seen in broken lines Fig. 2, the stud 6 passes up the slot at until it comes into line with the slot F; then the top may be tipped, the stud lpassing through the slot F, and when again the top is raised to a vertical position the stud 1 will drop into the vertical slot n and retain or hold the top in its upright position.

Either of the bows 0 may be dispensed with, if desired.

I claiml. The combination of the principal bow A with auxiliary bows B C, hinged together, and with jointed arm D, extending from said how C, substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. The combination of the principal bow or upright A of a carriage-top, hinged to the seatiron and arranged to be moved vertically on its pivot, with a vertical and segmental shaped slot in the seat-iron and an extension from the upright into the vertical slot, substantially as and for the purpose described.

0. CHESTER COGGINS. 

